Windows AFP Viewer Plug-in V2.0.3.0.2

The AFP Viewer plug-in lets you view AFP documents from a Web browser. For example, you can download AFP files from your OS/390 host system and view them or you can view files that are in AFP format on the Web. With the AFP Viewer plug-in, you can also print AFP files to both non-AFP printers and AFP printers.

Download Instructions

  1. To download the installation file click on "Download AFP Viewer Plug-in as msi installation" below
  2. You will be prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location; select "save to disk"
  3. You will be prompted to select a directory; select a directory of your choice
  4. Click the save button

The Windows AFP Viewer Plug-in installation is stored on your system. Now you can either run the installation immediately, using the "Open" button or use the "Open Folder" button to open the windows folder, or run the installation later. You can find the installation instructions below.

Download AFP Viewer Plug-in as msi installation

Installation Instructions

  1. Download the AFP Viewer plug-in.
  2. Run the IBM Document Connect for ASF - AFP Viewer Plugin.msi command to extract files. For example, if you downloaded the viewer to folder c:\temp, type this in the Run dialog box: c:\temp\IBM Document Connect for ASF - AFP Viewer Plugin.msi
  3. After installing the files, delete the files you downloaded to your workstation. For example, delete c:\temp\IBM Document Connect for ASF - AFP Viewer Plugin.msi.



Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs

The Document Connect for ASF 3270 Listener is a Windows executable, which listens to 3270 screen displayed by IBM Personal Communications, Attachmate Extra, or WRQ Reflection. If it is started, and if the FSNXML Map gets displayed on the 3270 screen it reads the screen contents, parses it and loads the contained Document Connect for ASF URL into a Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX control.

The Document Connect for ASF Java Client API is a programming interface supporting "emulator-less" Document Connect for ASF invocation using Windows dlls hosting an Internet Explorer ActiveX control. The Java part is provided as docclientapi.jar in the java/bin directory. Windows dlls are needed to run a Java Client API program, these dlls are provided here.

Download Instructions

  1. To download the installation file click on "Download 3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs" below
  2. You will be prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location; select "save to disk"
  3. You will be prompted to select a directory; select a directory of your choice
  4. Click the save button

The Document Connect for ASF3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs installation is stored on your system. Now you can either run the installation immediately, using the "Open" button or use the "Open Folder" button to open the windows folder, or run the installation later. You can find the installation instructions below.

Download 3270 Listener and JNI Client DLLs as msi installation

Using the Document Connect for ASF Java Client API DLLs

The dlls are required by programs using the Java Client API and need to be stored in a directory, which is part of the Windows PATH. Follow the instructions given in the API documentation.



Document Connect for ASF Conversion Toolkit

Document Connect for ASF Conversion Toolkit (shortly referred to as "Toolkit") allows to execute and verify DCF to HTML and HTML to DCF conversions. Additionally it allows to test modifications to DocXSLConversion.xml which controls the DCF/GML to HTML and HTML to DCF/GML conversion used in Document Connect for ASF and allows customize conversion directives in doccustom1.xsl and doccustom2.xsl.

It is a useful tool dedicated to ASF System administrators who define or modify ASF SPs.

Document Connect for ASF Toolkit has the following hardware prerequisites

Document Connect for ASF Toolkit has the following software prerequisites

You may obtain Sun Java Virtual Machine from http://www.java.com and Xalan and Xerces from http://xml.apache.org

The Document Connect for ASF Toolkit is provided as a Zip archive file

Download Instructions

  1. To download the ZIP archive file click on "Download Toolkit" below
  2. You will be prompted to either save the program to disk or to run it from its current location; select "save to disk"
  3. You will be prompted to select a directory; select a directory of your choice
  4. Click the save button

The Document Connect for ASF Toolkit is stored on your system. Now you can either extract the ZIP archive immediately, using the "Open" button or use the "Open Folder" button to open the windows folder, or extract the ZIP archive later. You can find the installation instructions below.

Download Toolkit

Installation Instructions

  1. Verify the Hardware and Software prerequisites.
  2. Create an installation directory on your disk (any drive letter) e.g. "C:\toolkit".
  3. Extract the archive into that installation directory using a unzip utility.
  4. Copy Xalan and Xerces jar files xercesImpl.jar, xalan.jar, xml-apis.jar and serializer.jar into subdirectory bin under installation directory e.g. "C:\toolkit\bin".
  5. Change in DocConfiguration.xml contained in subdirectory config under installation directory e.g "C:\toolkit\config\DocConfiguration.xml" all occurrences of relative path "./" into the installation directory e.g. "C:\toolkit\".
  6. Open a Command Prompt and change to the installation directory.
  7. Run "xtoolkit.bat" to verify the installation (e.g xtoolkit C:\toolkit\testdata\empty\text.txt).
  8. Double click on "showedit.html" found in .\testdata\empty to start Internet Explorer.